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SpaceX just made history and landed a rocket on a ship

SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket Friday at 4:43 p.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida, sending 7,000 pounds of cargo and an inflatable room toward the International Space Station.But the...

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Here's why landing a rocket on a ship just might save humanity

Remember this day: Friday, April 8, 2016.It's when SpaceX, a company led by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, may have pushed the course of human history more rapidly toward the stars.Minutes after SpaceX...

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Elon Musk may reveal his Mars colony plans this fall

Some day, Elon Musk just might land humans on Mars.Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin told Tech Insider that we'll need at least 25 years and cooperation between three rival nations to make it happen....

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Scientists just found a 'hot Jupiter' with 3 suns surprisingly close to Earth

Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics recently discovered that the KELT-4 system doesn't just have one star but three. This is only the forth time researchers have found a...

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Astronauts on the space station just caught a big Dragon

SpaceX's Dragon supply capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) early Sunday morning.European astronaut Tim Peake used the robotic arm on the ISS to grab the Dragon...

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Rosetta's comet has been changing color

Picture a comet. What color is it in your mind?If you’re like most people, you probably answered white or gray, since we're basically talking about chunks of space ice here.NASA even describes a...

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NASA has discovered 72 never-before-seen near-Earth objects

NASA has reported that they discovered 272 new near-earth-objects using a telescope which sees using infared light. Though they reported that chances of collision are low, they are still keeping a...

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SpaceX is planning to reuse the rocket it just landed on a barge in the ocean...

On April 8, SpaceX made history, landing its Falcon 9 rocket on a lonely barge in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. After three failed attempts, the landing marks SpaceX’s first successful attempt at...

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Stephen Hawking and a Russian billionaire are announcing a mysterious $100...

Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner are announcing a mysterious new space exploration initiative called "Breakthrough Starshot" at 12 p.m. ET today. (Watch the...

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Stephen Hawking and Russian Billionaire Yuri Milner are launching a...

Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking are teaming up to send 100-million-mile-per-hour bots deep into space.The $100 million initiative intends to develop light-propelled nanocrafts that will get us to Alpha...

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Stephen Hawking and a Russian billionaire want to send iPhone-size robots to...

Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner just announced a $100 million initiative to explore Alpha Centauri — the second-closest star to Earth — within our...

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Stephen Hawking and billionaire investor Yuri Milner want to use the 'Silicon...

In the 17th century, Johannes Kepler dreamed of sails enabling us to explore space on a solar breeze. Now, 400 years later, a $100 million initiative launched by Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire...

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'When the first alien life is discovered, it will not be on a planet'

Physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner are teaming up with a host of other physics and cosmology luminaries to plan a mission to Alpha Centauri, a star far beyond our own solar...

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Watch Stephen Hawking sum up exactly how humans could reach another star...

Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking discusses the newly announced StarShot program and how humans may travel outside our star system within our lifetimes.Produced by Darren Weaver. Video courtesy of...

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Here's how we might visit another star with laser-propelled robots

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking and tech billionaire Yuri Milner just announced a radical plan to send tiny, blazingly fast space ships to the nearest star system to our own, Alpha Centauri.The core...

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A Princeton astrophysicist has a brilliant theory about finding aliens

Theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson believes that if Alien life exists out there, we won't have to look far off to some distant planet to discover it, it'll probably turn up floating through the...

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The peculiar behavior of this group of supermassive black holes could shed...

Researchers in South Africa have discovered something unusual in a distant region of space: a group of black holes that are spewing in-sync. Using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India,...

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Stephen Hawking just announced a radical $100 million project for...

Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking have teamed up on a $100 million project called Breakthrough Starshot that would use lasers to travel to the nearest star.Produced by Jenner Deal....

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Stephen Hawking just did a Q&A and it was everything you hoped it would be

During the StarShot press conference on April 12, Stephen Hawking answered questions about interstellar travel, politics, aliens and his legacy.Produced by Darren Weaver. Video courtesy of Breakthrough...

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5 'facts' about Earth’s sun and moon that are absolutely false

There are any commonly held beliefs about Earth's sun and moon that simply aren't true.Produced by Zach Wasser. Original reporting by Dave Mosher.Follow TI: On FacebookJoin the conversation about this...

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